http://www.sitepoint.com/ seems like an interesting site for web developers.

Online access to the Tate’s archives through three themes.

“China, South Korea and Japan are to boost joint research into a new computer operating system to rival Microsoft Windows.
The project, expected to be open-source software, was proposed by Japan and is intended to give a helping hand to Windows rivals, such as Linux.
The Japanese Government has already earmarked one billion yen (US$85.5m) for the project.”
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“Recent problems regarding viruses that attacked Windows software have shown to the three countries the risk of relying on a single software product.” (BBC)

So I rang Blockbuster to cancel my card.
Me: I’d like to report a stolen card.
Blockbuster dweeb: Ok, do you have it there in front of you?

Ok, so my purse was stolen by some trollop my housemate brought home.
Overall I can deal with that, though right now I just want to hide under my desk and cry.
But I’m hating that the police can’t be arsed doing anything about it when
it would have to be one of the easiest prosecutions ever:
My housemate can identify her.
She left her handbag behind, with a letter with her *full name and
address* in it.
There’s *CCTV footage* of her trying to use the card.
The retained card has her signature on it, ferfarkssake.
When I say ‘deal’ I probably mean “I’m devasted but I’ll be ok by the time I’m 80”.
I’ve lost my Australian driver’s licence, and I’m weirdly deeply upset by this. It’s like I’ve lost part of my Australian identity. I can’t replace it while I’m over here, so I can’t do the easy swap for a UK licence, and I won’t have any simple ID when I’m in Australia.
I’ve also lost all that other sentimental stuff you keep in your purse, and some of my best travel notes from Helsinki.

“The Department of Trade and Industry has created a 2,000-word set of guidelines on its tactics for deploying office plants, it is reported.” (BBC)

“Our chief want in life is someone who will make us do what we can.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The spectre of terrorism – real and exaggerated – has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.”
…
“The War on Terror was never a war in the traditional sense. It is, instead, a kind of brand, an idea that can be easily franchised by any government in the market for an all-purpose opposition cleanser.
…It can also be applied liberally on unwanted immigrants, pesky human rights activists and even on hard-to-get-out investigative journalists.”
Naomi Klein in the Guardian.

Well, poo. Depp retracts ‘anti-American’ statement.
Wishful thinking? This is a potentially vulnerable president.

Useful for people in the UK: what’s on tv.
Best and worst UK transport stories at the BBC.
Also in the UK, I’ve discovered Fry’s Orange Cream bars, and they’re too damn good. Help.